Pre-Show CSW is bombing his cross-examination in the COPA case, trying to explain the miraculous circumstances that created the hundreds of a News FTX customers are being paid back in full! ...at the bitcoin price of $16k Citrea claims to be a prototype zero knowledge Etherium Virtual Machine (zk-EVM) built on bitcoin but its not working and might never work Seth is exited about Citrea Economics Chinese stock market drops prompt sudden replacement of a chief regulator, further...

Pre-Show Harvard report on housing in the USA makes the obvious conclusion that homelessness is all about prices, wages are stagnant or falling while housing is getting more expensive due to both constrained supply and the use of real estate as an investment vehicle Dashboard | Truflation Gavin Newsom Witnesses Shoplifting SNL - Debanking Weekend Update News While the U.S. Whitehouse pushes for a new edict to register all bitcoin mining in the USA, including GPS coordinates of...

Pre-Show Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode "We're mining around 4.5 EH - closing in on 1% of the network- with equipment in hand to ramp quickly to 8 EH," announced the company. News Blink plugin for BTC Payserver gives custodial lightning payments/receipts to anyone running a BTC Payserver The COPA lawsuit, that will determine if CSW can call himself Satoshi, has discovered that CSW's 'newly found' Satoshi evidence is overwhelmingly fake and COPA has decilined...

Halving the next hype cycle 101 days and 14512 blocks left News ETF? SEC’s bitcoin ETF tweet fiasco may end in fraud charges, lawyers say - Blockworks Day 1 Trade data: Grayscale: $2.3 billion BlackRock: $1 billion Fidelity: $700 million ARK 21Shares: $288 million Bitwise: $125 million Coinbase did $7B in Bitcoin transfers OTC during the day. Wally Street seems happy with the results $200M of folks finally getting out Eric Balchunas on XX James Seyffart on X "UPDATE:...

Pre-Show A personal account of living in Turkiye under soaring inflation, many trends described here are also happening in the US and Europe News The financial incentives of bitcoin are no joke, as Blackrock Names JPMorgan as Authorized Participant for Spot Bitcoin ETF Blackrock’s latest amended filing shows that it has named JPMorgan and Jane Street as the authorized participants for its spot bitcoin ETF. However, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon recently said at a Senate hearing in reply...

News Institutional adoption is changing bitcoin's role in finance, is that good or bad? The Fragility of Bitcoin: Potential Challenges and Resilience Despite these challenges, there is reason to believe Bitcoin’s resilience shown to date will allow it to continue to push ahead into the future Nigeria removes bitcoin banking ban in favor of trying to regulate crypto companies Ocean pool is adding block template options that do not filter transactions per bitcoin knots policy, but...

Pre-Show The bitcointalk.org original hodl post is 9 years old and expresses many of the sentiments of the Game Stop Apes of January 2021 News Stacker news, a reddit clone that upvotes via lightning, has started OFAC complicance due to fears about US Financial regulation This might tie in with the politics of US Payroll taxes and maximizing tax collection NTA Blog: Heard Loud and Clear: IRS Postpones Implementation of $600 Form 1099-K Reporting by a Year - TAS As bitcoin transaction...

Pre-Show At least one person is living on bitcoin in Singapore, all you need is a master's in finance and higher income than expenses News Warren Expands Coalition of Banking Committee Support for Bill Cracking Down on Crypto’s Use in Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking, Sanctions Evasion | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts Cosponsors - S.2669 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2023 | Congress.gov | Library of...

Pre-Show Chainalysis' global crypto adoption survey demonstrates that grass roots adoption surges in hostile monetary environments Financial Distress Leads To Surge In Early 401(k) Withdrawals, Bank Report Shows Seattle is a victim of its own success | The Seattle Times Study shows $100K is actually worth about $49K in Seattle Freight recession will continue in 2024: CNBC Supply Chain Survey News Getting fiat liquidity from bitcoin is getting harder in the US The noose...

Pre-Show Bad entropy will get your bitcoins stolen News This cycle's bitcoin environmental FUD is probably going to be water usage Shiny new FUD ammo takes media by storm! Rebuttal of BBCNews article, and the Underlying Study, on Bitcoin Water Usage – Batcoinz Unchained surveyed US investors and sentiment is very bullish on bitcoin Economics What is Global R*? And why is it still falling? A Mechanistic model based view of society, humans, and economics is wrong It's not good...

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Pre-Show Mempool Observer seems to have caught bitcoin mining pool F2pool not mining OFAC sanctioned bitcoin addresses The SEC thinks polygon and solana are securities but this is likely insurance against losing an identical lawsuit against Coinbase News Binance's CEO CZ will plead guilty to U.S. money laundering charges, and the exchange will pay a $4.3bn fine to settle some US allegations of ciminality though SEC and CTFC lawsuits are still pending Bitrex, another non-US crypto...

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Pre-Show ETF hype fading? End of an 8 day approval window Bloomberg's James Seyffart says still a 90% chance approval by Jan 10th 2024. James Seyffart on X "Okay, we're nearing in on deadline dates for 3 spot #Bitcoin ETF applications. I want to get ahead of it because there's a pretty good chance we'll see delay orders from the SEC. Delays WOULD NOT change anything about our views & 90% odds for 19b-4 approval by Jan 10, 2024 Bitcoin News on X JUST IN: @EricBalchunas of...

Pre-Show The PlanB indicator is flashing bull market /s News Adopting Bitcoin Conference stats: 1100 attendees 350 Salvadoran Over 150 sessions El Salvador’s Rating Raised by S&P on Local Debt Refinancing Remember that the downgrade was partially attributed to bitcoin but also focused on the country's reliance on short term debt financing Tourism, a major economic driver in El Salvador, plummeted during the 2020 pandemic but has increased sharply 2023 numbers are also...

Pre-Show Federal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine Over FEDNOW Parody Merch The rollout of FedNow, a realtime payments system, has been predictably slow with a focus on bank-to-bank xfers It compares favorably with the adoption of RTP, a private realtimes payment network RTP is faster and cheaper than ACH or wire xfers but expensive compared to the bitcoin lightning network MasterCard has a brief history of real time payments But fraud is still an unsovled problem even on these...

Pre-Show Main stream financial blogger Rich Dad Poor Dad views bitcoin as a hedge against Central Bank Risk Actually Kiyosaki is quite shady despite his financial success, typical bitcoin tout amiright? Economics The US Social Security Trust Fund is still drawing down which may affect US Treasury Market liquidity as the world enters a decade of Fiscal Dominance The latest FED working paper on fiscal dominance identifies the banking sector as the future warehouse of large US debt...

Pre-Show Eurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project ECB's Digital Euro CBDC Project Moves to 'Preparation' Phase The actual report details how the digital euro is basically a credit card processing system with the ECB as the clearinghouse News Wordpress site hackers are using Binance Smart Chain to host malware payloads free to call contract data cheap to update the contract contents on BSC Using a storage function on-chain to store payload We hope that Jimmy...

Pre-Show A busy week for Bitcoin Hardware Trezor's bitcoin only firmware anniversery hardware signing device is very orange Swan Partners with Blockstream to Launch Swan Vault "Integrating Blockstream Jade's multi-signature and hardware-based authentication into Swan Vault elevates the standards of Bitcoin collaborative custody," said Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten. Coldcard Mk4 v5.2.0: Seed Vault, PSBTv2 & More "TL;DR: First Bitcoin Singing-Device to store MULTIPLE seeds....

Pre-Show Volcano Energy Bitcoin Mining Pool Goes Live - Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights El Salv launched the volcano powered bitcoin mining pool News Chainalysis lays off 150 Employees As Chill Of Crypto Winter Persists The US Prosecutor also wants to prevent discovery of chainalysis heuristics in the Bitcoin Fog Mixer case There is a progression of mass surveillance encroachment on US Civil Liberties Economics Arthur is back talking maco Monetary...

Pre-Show Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison | TechCrunch News Ripple bails out Fortress Trust after hackers steal customer assets Mike Belshe on X: I really don’t want to talk about it at all, because it actually has nothing to do with BitGo. But because Fortress was not forthcoming about what actually did happen, we are now indirectly affected -…" / X Fortress CEO Responds to Ripple Backing Out of Acquisition -...

Pre-Show Optimism foundation is dumping tokens, they are the technological provider of Coinbase's 'base' protocol News Amboss.space has a new lightning node liquidity provisioning system. Must trade sats for 'ambucks' The Mt Gox, an early crypto exchange that failed spectacularly, trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi hs delayed repayments another year PDF The Gox story is an early bitcoin parable on the danger and general incopetence of custodians in what became the bitcoin space The former...

Pre-Show A very reasonable discussion on HN around the WTF Happened in 1971 website, the world is complicated, there are many ways to interpret history and the present, none are particularly satisfying News Binance.US cuts third of staff as CEO Brian Shroder leaves Binance.US, the United States arm of the crypto exchange, has cut around a third of its staff — or 100 positions — with its president and CEO Brian Shroder also departing the firm. Binance.US Statment to...